The Harry Potter Timeline, What we know so far |
 Jun 30 2007, 08:07 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 3 Joined: 6:41pm June 30, 2007  |
Well, this may be why it keeps coming up. I did not get this from the movie, but from GoF. I'm quoting from my book, first American edition, July 2000, Chapter 34, Priori Incantatem, page 667:
"And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's wand...and Harry knew when he saw it who it would be...he knew, as though he had expected it from the moment when Cedric had appeared from the wand...knew, because the man appearing was the one he'd thought of more than any other tonight... "The smoky shadow of a tall man with untidy hair fell to the ground as Bertha had done, straightened up, and looked at him...and Harry, his arms shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his father. "'Your mother's coming...' he said quietly. 'She wants to see you...it will be all right...hold on...' "And she came...first her head, then her body...a yound woman with long hair, the smoky, shadowy form of Lily Potter blossomed from the end of voldemort's wand, fell to the ground and straightened like her husband." QUOTE I don't know why this keeps coming up! In GOF LILY comes out first, not James. Is this a movie problem? Either way, here is the direct quote from GOF: QUOTE That quote is from The Goblet of Fire, chapter thirty-four entitled "Priori Incantatem:. I have read this on many threads, it is a common misconception for some reason... Here's why. I copied this from the Lexicon: QUOTE The now-infamous "Wand Order Problem" was corrected in later editions of the book. In the original version, when the Reverse Spell Effect happened in the graveyard, James Potter's image came out before Lily's. Since the spells were happening in reverse, that would mean that James died after Lily during Voldemort's attack in Godric's Hollow. Although everything in the GF text clearly points to Lily coming out last, the passage was rather clumsily changed in later editions to have Lily come out first. That is now the official version of the events.
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Jun 30 2007, 10:39 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 27 Joined: 3:02pm June 21, 2007 Location: Number 4 Privet Drive (aka Purgatory) |
I found this passage on JKR's website, F.A.Q About The Books, pg 03/04:
Question: "At the end of 'Goblet of Fire', in which order should Harry's parents have come out of the wand?" Answer: "Lily first, then James. That's how it appears in my original manuscript but we were under enormous pressure to edit it very fast and my American editor thought that was the wrong way around, and he is so good at catching small errors I changed it without thinking, then realised it had been right in the first place. We were all very sleep-deprived at the time." -------------------- "He's on our side now," said Hermione reprovingly.
Ron snorted. "Doesn't stop him being a git." ---OotP (pg. 69) |
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Jul 16 2007, 10:27 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 6 Joined: 12:35pm April 14, 2007 |
QUOTE(SoonerGryffindor @ Mar 14 2007, 03:21 AM) [snapback]1136763[/snapback] I have a question about Minerva McGonagall and her timeline. In the essay it states that she was born in 1925 and started Hogwarts in 1937 and that Tom Riddle was born in 1926 and he started Hogwarts in 1938. Yet later in the essay, Tom is described as being in 5th year at the same time that Minerva is in 7th year. Wouldn't Minerva only be one year ahead of Tom, which would put her in her 6th year? She started only 1 year before him.  tom riddle was 12 when he started hogwarts. isn't the average age of a starting first year 11? therefore making mcgonagall two years ahead of tom. |
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